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Austin: Tuberville Is Harming National Security

July 13, 2023 Buck Banks

“This is a national security issue. It’s a readiness issue. And, we shouldn’t kid ourselves. I think any member of the Senate Armed Services Committee knows that.”

— Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told CNN that Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) holds on hundreds of senior military nominations are a “national security issue.”

Schumer Slams Tuberville Over White Supremacist Comments

July 12, 2023 Buck Banks

“It’s hard to believe that the Senator from Alabama has to be corrected again. The Senator from Alabama is wrong, wrong, wrong. The definition of white nationalism is not a matter of opinion. White nationalism, the ideology that one race is inherently superior to others, that people of color should be segregated, subjected, and relegated to second-class citizenship is racist down to its rotten core. … [Tuberville] is fanning the flames of bigotry and intolerance. … This isn’t a joke — this is deadly serious stuff. And for a member of the United States Senate to speculate about what white nationalism means, as if it’s some benign little thought experiment, is deeply and terribly disturbing.”

— Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, as reported by the Daily Beast.

Hood’s Off, Tommy

July 12, 2023 Buck Banks

He is absolutely no Winston Churchill,
But he could be the mayor of Gooberville.
You know, that racist S.O.B.,
From down in Alabamy —
The white supremacist Senator Tommy Tuberville.

Booker Praises Tuberville Sidestep

August 12, 2021 Buck Banks

“I am so excited. This is perhaps the highlight of this long and painful and torturous night. This is a gift… because there’s some people who have said that there are members of this deliberative body that want to defund the police, to my horror.”

— Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), quoted by CNN, praising an amendment by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) which allowed every Democratic senator to symbolically vote against defunding the police.

Tuberville Can’t Comment on Greene Because … Weather

February 3, 2021 Buck Banks

“I haven’t even looked at what all she’s done. I’d have to hold back a statement on that. Travel in this weather it’s been a little rough looking at any news or whatever.”

— Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said that he can’t comment on allegations against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) because bad weather has prevented him from reading the news, Business Insider reports. Note: Tuberville’s only qualifications to be the freshman senator from Alabama was that he coached football at Auburn University.

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Austin: Tuberville Is Harming National Security

“This is a national security issue. It’s a readiness issue. And, we shouldn’t kid ourselves. I think any member of the Senate Armed Services Committee knows that.”

— Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told CNN that Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) holds on hundreds of senior military nominations are a “national security issue.”

Schumer Slams Tuberville Over White Supremacist Comments

— Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, as reported by the Daily Beast.

Hood’s Off, Tommy

Booker Praises Tuberville Sidestep

“I am so excited. This is perhaps the highlight of this long and painful and torturous night. This is a gift… because there’s some people who have said that there are members of this deliberative body that want to defund the police, to my horror.”

— Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), quoted by CNN, praising an amendment by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) which allowed every Democratic senator to symbolically vote against defunding the police.

Tuberville Can’t Comment on Greene Because … Weather

“I haven’t even looked at what all she’s done. I’d have to hold back a statement on that. Travel in this weather it’s been a little rough looking at any news or whatever.”

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Attorney General Merrick Garland, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee/Inquisition.

“We always get the blame. Name one time that we’ve shut the government down and we haven’t got the blame.”

— Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), a senior appropriator, told Katherine Tully-McManus and Adam Cancryn of Politico.

“Mmmkay! And I’m 110lbs and a virgin ?! I’m not a scale or a doctor but I have spent some time beneath 215lb men and Tiny was not one of them.”

— Stormy Daniels, referring to Donald Trump’s claim at his arrest last week that he weighs just 215 pounds.

“I did see it on television. Handsome guy.”

— President Biden, commenting on Donald Trump’s mug shot.

“Didn’t hurt himself. Didn’t really help himself either. It says something that no one felt the need to attack him.”

– Sarah Longwell, a Republican strategist and founder of the anti-Trump Republican Accountability Project, discussing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s mediocre performance during the first GOP presidential debate

Numerati

42 million

“Almost 42 million Americans – over one-eighth of the US population – are estimated to have lived within one mile of a mass shooting since 2014,” CNN reports.

$7.1 million

$61.1 million

62%

A new Navigator Research poll finds that — by a whopping 62% to 30% margin — most Americans think Donald Trump has committed a crime. Independent voters are even more sure and think Trump is guilty by 67% to 18%.

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